Run Ansible playbook on mac1.metal instances fleet with AWS Systems Manager
In days of containers and serverless applications, Ansible looks not such a trendy thing. But still, there are cases when it helps, and there are cases when it combines very well with brand new product offerings, such as EC2 Mac instances. The more I use mac1.metal in AWS, the more I see that Ansible becomes a bedrock of software customization in my case. And when you have a large instances fleet, the AWS Systems Manager becomes your best friend (the sooner you get along together, the better)....